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Do not view if you may be offendedThe Classic Erotic Male NudebyVittorio Calvelli

ἔφηβος(ephebe)

Ephebos (often in the plural epheboi), also anglicised as ephebe (plural: ephebes) or archaically ephebus (plural: ephebi), is a Greek word for an adolescent age group or a social status reserved for that age in Antiquity.

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ARE OVER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE

FOREWORD

Pornography or 'porn' is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.
A distinction is often made between erotica (the portrayal of sexuality with high-art aspirations, focusing also on feelings and emotions) and pornography (the depiction of acts in a sensational manner, with the entire focus on the physical act, so as to arouse quick intense reactions).
Defining erotic art is difficult since perceptions of both what is 'erotic' and what is 'art' fluctuate.
In Europe, starting with the Renaissance, there was a tradition of producing 'erotica' for the amusement of the aristocracy.
In the early 16th century, the text 'I Modi' was an woodcut album created by the designer Giulio Romano, the engraver Marcantonio Raimondi and the poet Pietro Aretino.
In 1601 Caravaggio painted the "Amor Vincit Omnia," for the collection of the Marquis Vincenzo Giustiniani.
The tradition was continued by other, more modern painters, such as Fragonard, Courbet, Millet, Balthus, Picasso, Edgar Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec.
Essentialy a traditional work of figurative, classical art is concerned with composition, form, color, texture and other technical matters, the subject being of secondary consideration - whereas a 'pornographic' image is simply concerned with producing sexual arousal in the viewer.
The erotic art exhibited below exclusively features the male nude.
In order to avoid cliched, stilted and meaningless poses, many compositions depict sexual foreplay or sexual acts - and the settings have a strong classical bias, as homo-eroticism was a strong element in Ancient Greek and Roman culture.

SEXUAL IMAGERY IN ANCIENT ROMAN CULTURE

After extensive excavations began in the 18th century, many ancient roman sites were found contain many examples of erotic art and frescoes, symbols, and inscriptions regarded by its excavators at the time as 'pornographic'.
Even many recovered household items had a sexual theme.
The ubiquity of such imagery and items indicates that the sexual mores of the ancient Roman culture of the time were much more liberal than most present-day cultures, although much of what might seem to us to be erotic imagery (e.g. oversized phalluses) could arguably be magical and religious imagery.
This clash of cultures led to an unknown number of discoveries being hidden away again.
For example, a wall fresco which depicted Priapus, the ancient god of sex and fertility, with his extremely enlarged penis, was covered with plaster, and many other examples were locked away "out of prudishness" and only opened on request.
Graphic representation of the power of the fascinus (erect penis) to ward off the evil eye are found on a Roman mosaics. The motif of the erect penis also known from multiple relief sculptures from in numerous ancient Roman archaeological sites.
Phallic charms, often winged, were ubiquitous in Roman culture, from jewelry to bells and wind chimes to lamps.
The fascinus was thought particularly to ward off evil from children, mainly boys, and from conquering generals.
Pliny notes the custom of hanging a phallic charm on a baby's neck, and examples have been found of phallus-bearing rings too small to be worn except by children.
The "fist and phallus" amulet was prevalent among soldiers.
These are phallic pendants with a representation of a (usually) clenched fist at the bottom of the shaft, facing away from the glans.

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